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c. T. WOOTTEN, DECD.

D. BOWERS. EXECUTOR.

' APPLICATION FILED DEC. 24,1920. I 1,418,897. PatentedJune 6, 1922,

DAVID BOWERS, EXECUIOR, or LAUREL SPRINGS, New messy, S IG MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF AMERICA, OF EI-IILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 1

A. CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

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re ssue T 0 allwhom it may concern Be it known that CHARLES T. RVOOTTEN, formerly a citizen of the United States," residin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but now. eceased, did during his lifetime invent Boxes, of which the following is a specification. 1 I

One object of this invention is to provide a pressed metal box of such construction as shall be particularly adapted for successful sealing and wrapping and whose parts shall be so related and proportioned asto prevent wrinkling or buckling either of the sealing strip or of the wrapper.

It is also desired to provide a box of such construction that the outside surface of the flange of its cover shall be substantially flush with and in the same plane as the ad jacent main portions of its sides, and in which each of said latter portions shall lie outside of a plane including the top and bottom edges of the respective sides of which they form a part. 7

It is further desired to provide a form of pressed metal box having a neck portion for the reception of the flange of its cover and in which the main portion of each side of said box shall be formed by bulging out or expanding an otherwise plane portion beyond a plane including the neck portion and bottom edge of such side.

These objects and other advantageous ends is attained as hereinafter set forth, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a perspective viewof the body of a box made in accordance with the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section of a part of the box shown in Fig. 1, with the cover and sealing strip applied thereto.

Referring to the above drawings, 1 represents the bottom and 2 the four sides of 2 box of substantially rectangular outline made of sheet metal pressed up from a single previously cut fiat sheet. The main portion of the bottom 1 is forced inwardly to provide a panelled effect and the adjacent ends of each of the sides are curled together or otherwise connected to rigidly hold them together as indicated at ,3. As originally formed, the pressed up blank from which the finished box body shown in Fig. 1 1s to Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Ju 6, i922.

Application filed December 24, 1920. serial No. 433,002.

be made, has flat sides extending at right angl'es to its bottom. and its opposite top edges their bottom portions. V I

In accordance with the invention such a blank is operated on, preferably by means of the dies described and claimed in the appliare obviously at the same distance apart as cation #433,001, of even date herewith, so I that while a narrowelongated neck a a'djacent and including the edge of each'side, re-

mains in itsplane unaltered condition, the main portion 5 of each side between said part 4and the bottom 1 is bul ed or pressed outwardly as indicated in iii an a distance substantially equal .to the thickness'of the flange 6 of the cover 7. This pressed out portion is plane for-a vertical dist'ance at least as great as the width of the cover flange, although it may be more or less than this, and is inclined inwardly from the bottom edgeof said plane portion to the adjacent bottom'edge ofthe boxbody. When therefore the flange 6 of the cover 7 is applied to said box body, its outside surface lies substantially flush or in the same plane with a considerable portion of the adjacent routside'surface of the main or lower part of The top parts of the sides which form the neck for the reception of the cover, in the case shown, are of the same length as the bottom edges of the sides of which they form a part, and the distance between'opposite parts of the neck in the box illustrated is the same as that between opposite edges of the bottom.

After the cover has been placed in position on the neck, it is possible to apply to it and to the adjacent plane part of the pressed or bulged out side 5, a sealing strip 8 of tin foil or other material which, since said sur faces lie in the same plane, will not, buckle or wrinkle, but being fiat will perfectly exclude air, moisture, etc. As the sealing strip 8 usually carries adhesive upon its inner face, it serves to hermetically close the box, and it has been found that since it is not brought into engagement with the sharp edges either of the cover or of thebody of the box, it it not out or injured either while being applied or during the subsequent wrapping operation.

Moreover, owing to the substantially plane form of the external surface of the box sides for a considerable height thereof adjacent the neck, the filled and sealed box made in accordance with the invention may be mechanically wrapped without wrinkling or tending to strain or break the wrapper, as would be the use if the cover flange projected beyond the plane of the side of th box.

It is claimed: v

1. A pressed up sheet metal box body of rectangular outline having the main portion of its sides bulged outwardly to leave the remaining portions thereof in the form of a neck of the same outside dimensions as the bottom of the box; and a cover having a flange formed to fit said neck.

2. A pressed up sheet metal box body of rectangular outline having the main portion of it.' sides bulged outwardly to leave the rema; iing portions thereof in the form of a neck of the same outside dimensions as the bottom of the box; and a cover having a flange formed to it on said neck with its outside surface flush with the outside surface of the main portions of the sides.

A pressed up sheet metal boX body of rectangular outline having its sides interlocked at its corners and formed with relatively narrow neckportions adjacent the top edges of. its sides,- said portions lying in planes including the adjacent edges of the bottom respectively, and the main side portions of the box between its bottom and said neck portions being bulged outwardly beyond said planes; with a cover having side flanges fitting on said box body with their outside surfaces substantially within the some planes as the outside surfaces of the main portions of the sides respectively.

l. A pressed up sheet metal box of rectangular outline including a body and a flanged cover therefor, the sidesof said body having neck portions for the reception of the flanged cover and including pressed out portions of at least the height of the cover flange, said sides being inclined inwardly below said portion to the bottom of the body.

5. A pressed up sheet metal box of rectangular outline including a body and a flanged cover therefor, sald body having a neck formed for the reception of the cover flange and having its sides bulged outwardly beyond a plane including the adjacent porlllOIlSOf the neck and of its bottom edge, for

a distance substantially equal to the thickflanged cover therefor, the bottom of the body being formed with a panel and having itssides formed with a neck for the reception of the cover flange, each side of the body being bulged outwardly beyo'ndits neck portion for adistance suflicient to bringits outer surface substantially flush with the outer surface of sald flange.

DAVID Bownns, Executor 0 the last will and testament of Charles T. Woollen, deceased. 

